Programme Development Specialist

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• Strategic development: linking current internal strategic development efforts with fundraising strategy (understand potential for new interventions, identify areas of interest for future programming, and related funding opportunities).
• To develop a new fundraising strategy and action plan for the mission linked to the operational objectives set in the new 2023-2025 Stratop.
• Produce a summary of needs and gaps within HI Ukraine’s programmatic areas to identify potential for new interventions, needs assessments, and funding opportunities.
• Map relevant donors’ strategies and priorities, and development initiatives of other organizations (NGOs, UN agencies and government)
• Relationship management: building external relationships/external engagement, including identification of fundraising and partnership opportunities
• Engage with donors to identify areas of mutual interest for further engagement and support relationships with strategic donors and partners.
• Identify and develop potential partnership opportunities for large-scale projects (e.g. consortiums, multi- country projects)
• Identify potential local partners and develop support the formulation of Local Partnership packages covering capacity assessment and enhancement and partnership management and contracting.
• In coordination with and Communications Officer, develop a communication strategy and action plans for HI’s Ukraine’s mission to better communicate HI’s work to existing and potential donors, country representations.
• Proposal development: if funding opportunities on newly identified sector(s) of intervention arise, support Grant Team with proposal development (incl. capacity building of Grant Team)
• In coordination with HI’s technical and project teams, lead proposal and concept note writing in accordance with HI’s proposal writing process and tools and in compliance with donors’ guidelines and expectations, including logical frameworks, MEAL plan, context and needs analysis, planning, staffing and budgeting.
• Support and build the Grants Teams capacity with grants management including donor reporting, monitoring and compliance.

• You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in project development and donor relationship management (including experience in consortium and local partnership development)
• You have experience of providing context, needs and donor analysis.
• You have experience working in one or more of HI’s programmatic areas: Health, Humanitarian Mine Action, Livelihoods, Inclusive governance and civil society, Inclusion mainstreaming.
• You have very strong skills in Financial and budgetary management, as well as in commercial negociation.
• You have strong analytical and writing skills and excellent communication and representation skills.

• English Fluent
• French Fluent

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